Musings

Thanks to the Guru for this shot…using the iPad.

Immersed in DiSclafani’s The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, and finding it lush in some ways and lacking in others. So far: “A” for effort.

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Long story (maybe) but, we’ve (royal “we”) got some natural history-chops, and…hmm, this carbon-caterpillar, however beautiful, is…mysterious. Taxonomically. (And maybe more.)

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Friday rituals. More or less.

Tonight’s included Samized BBQ sauce.

I write this following a NYT article by Catherine Saint Louis from the 9th, “Rituals Make Our Food More Flavorful.” (Behind a firewall.)

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Amazingly, more rain.

And, for a non-sequitur, loved Tuesday’s Colbert.

…there is a Daft Punk.

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I could have waited, hoping the rain would abate, but I went out and picked the Thai basil anyway. And got oh so wet….

I was in the mood to feel the rain. And I did!

Oh, and dinner was yummy, too!

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Rain again. This means it’s time to weed.

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I like this front-door handle. I like the finish. I like the dark wood it’s mounted on. Yet, somehow, the handle-loop doesn’t seem quite formidable enough to balance the broad plate it’s attached to.

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Transportation networks—how accessible? how expensive?—are an important factor in the development of civilizations. Now it’s independent of communication (that is, the movement of information and ideas), and the perspective from today’s world, with the two separate, makes it more difficult to look back into the hazy deep-past to times when information only moved if people did.

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Crape myrtle blossoms on the ground after a good rain.

Three days ago we signed up for Netflix for the first time. Tops on our list was watching the first season of House of Cards, the Kevin Spacey/Robin Wright Washington powerbroker tale released as thirteen episodes all at once—and only on Netflix.

We do have some impulse control, as it took us six months to get Netflix after the series was released. Yes, I know, and three days to watch all the episodes.

And, yes, we very much enjoyed these slimy dark characters. Wouldn’t want to know them, or live in their world….

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You know where this is. And you know who I’m talkin’ to…haha.

It’s been a while since we’ve done the Roof Thing; great fun this evening—pinks in the sky, nice breeze, great view. Not quite the same at our place.

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